Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Gatsby. Owen Davis has taken the most recent and probably the best novel of the facile F. Scott Fitzgerald and made it into a play of considerable amusement and some excellence. The hero, who met the girl in a training camp and tried after the War to make himself a gentleman in an erratically momentous manner, is well played by James Rennie. In case you have not read the novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose...
...their next tilt, the Nassau warriors led the Harvard six for two periods, only to lose, 4--3, in an exciting overtime game. Since this setback, the Tigers have again resumed their policy of gaining experience by the use of practice games. Incidentally, Yale was taken into Camp, and following this, the Tigers lost for the second time to the St. Nick's, this time by the count of $ 4. The New York Athletic Club has been downed 4 $ in an overtime game, and Merristown furnished the Princeton skaters with a practice session, the Tigers winning...
...amateur from the professional taint and yet not drawing too line a line. Professor Richardson pointed with approval to the position taken by the Harvard Advisory Committee. Charges of professionalism have been made against college men who play on hotel baseball teams, or are active in the game as camp counselors, or give athletic instruction in some other form. The Harvard position is that such participation does not impair their amateur standing...
...park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry trees along the Potomac speedway, and provides the camp for summer tourists amid a setting of blooms and municipal gardens...
...said, "Lieutenant Winthorpe was forced to land on a German flying field. He was taken prisoner, but there was delay in sending him to a prison camp. The Germans immediately dropped a note on Winthorpe's squadron saying he was safe. The German officers supplied him with clothing, played tennis with him, went hunting with him, and he had a wonderful time for a fortnight. Finally, when the time came for him to go, all the officers petitioned the squadron commander to permit him to remain. The commander referred it to the higher command, which refused the request...